Format: ebookPublished: October 12th, 2023 Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary RomanceGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars Thank you to Hodder & Stoughton for providing a copy of this book via NetGalley – views remain my own. This was my last festive read for 2023. I have to admit, although the book was enjoyable I found myself a little disappointed overallContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Flying Home for Christmas by Helen Whitaker”
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Book Review: A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
Format: ebookRelease Date: January 20th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Historical – LiteraryGoodreads Rating: 1/5 Stars Thank you to publishers Faber & Faber for providing a copy of this book via NetGalley. A little history before diving into the review, specifically about the event that starts this book – in October 1966, a coal slag heap collapsed inContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe”
Book Review: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
Format: PaperbackRelease Date: January 5th, 2000Age: AdultGenre: Romance – HistoricalGoodreads Rating: 2/5 Stars This book was so good until maybe the last third? Everything prior to Simon and Daphne getting caught in the garden is great, but unfortunately the book takes a downward turn from there and gets a bit messy. Do I still wantContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn”
Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Defied My Expectations
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This is an interesting one – it’s not ones thatContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Defied My Expectations”
Book Review: Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman, Jonathan Plackett
Format: HardbackRelease Date: October 19th, 2021Age: Children’sGenre: FantasyGoodreads Rating: 1/5 Stars I was left feeling fairly unimpressed with this book. It felt low-effort, and I’m not totally sure what they were trying to say about gender in the way they’ve constructed this. The fairy tales are the Andrew Lang texts, put through an algorithm, withContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman, Jonathan Plackett”
Unwrapping Words 